Lacking guidance systems, such rockets had to be carefully aimed at relatively close range to successfully hit the target.

Lacking proximity fusing, the missile would only detonate if a direct hit was scored.

Lacking a comp, a. 38 Super, running at Major, has felt recoil much like that of a. 45 ACP, and more than that of a 9mm.

Lacking evidence to suggest Khadr was involved in the bombing, Pakistan dropped their charges and released Khadr in March.

Lacking the support of infantry or heavy artillery, the mounted force was too small to capture this strong rearguard position, but the threat from the mounted advance was enough to force the enemy to evacuate the position.

Lacking suitable beasts of burden and inhabiting domains often too mountainous or boggy for wheeled transport, the ancient civilizations of the Americas did not develop wheeled transport or the mechanics associated with animal power.

Lacking a flowing stream that would have provided water power, Richland never developed significant industry and remained a sleepy farm community until the late twentieth century.

Lacking work, by 1924 he turned his attention to the wreckage of the High Seas Fleet, scuttled at its moorings in the natural harbour of Scapa Flow in Orkney, off the North-east coast of Scotland in late June 1919.

Lacking his brother's weight and strength, he took longer than Takanohana to rise up the ranks, still being a maegashira wrestler as late as January 1993, the tournament that Takanohana earned promotion to ozeki.

Lacking a male provider ( their grandfather died that year ), they relied greatly on each other and became exceptionally close.

Lacking an operating repository, however, the federal government owes to the utilities somewhere between $ 300 and $ 500 million per year in compensation for failing to comply with the contract it signed to take the spent nuclear fuel by 1998.

Lacking representation from all of the states, the Convention made no suggestions for changing the Articles but instead drafted a report that led to the creation of a Constitutional Convention the following year to create an entirely new governing document.

Lacking a replacement, Hal Roach managed to convince him to stay on for another year.

Lacking the capital with which to manufacture his lubricators in large numbers, he usually assigned his patent rights to his employers or sold them to investors.

Lacking the investment necessary to enable the company to compete effectively in newly emerging markets, Parker-Hale was eventually sold out to the Midlands engineering group, Modular Industries.

Lacking the respected and effective institutions that consensus helps provide, minority parties, such as the P.D.I. in 1957 and the progressive Istiqlal faction in 1958, clamor for elections when out of power, but are not at all certain they wish to be controlled by popular choice when in power.

Lacking access to material of value and out of touch with Soviet intelligence, he all but ceased to operate as a Soviet agent.

Lacking siege engines and sufficient manpower to take the city of Rome itself, he had planned to turn the Italian allies against Rome and starve the city out through a siege.

Lacking enough water to put out the flames, buildings in the fire's path were dynamited to deny the fire fuel.

Lacking the moral influence of Ben or the need to stay secret for his aunt, Peter broke out of the orphanage he was sent to and began to defeat criminals for the reward money, matters coming to a head when he nearly killed the Green Goblin in a fight.

Lacking water, the Nabataeans were forced out of their camp for battle, but were defeated in this last battle.

Lacking funds, he seeks out the bandit Rughalt of the sore knees, his accomplice, to provide him shelter and funds.

Lacking sufficient financial support to pay for radio advertising, O ' Brien commissioned campaign songs from local folk artists promoting his themes, recorded them, then played them out of a loudspeaker on a truck driven through town.

Lacking the proper means to create their own warjacks the Mercenaries have created their own by scavenging discarded and out of date parts, which they've refitted into working ' jacks capable of doing battle with newer ones.

Lacking any influence or naval contacts himself, Dixon Hoste asked his landlord, Thomas Coke, for assistance and was introduced to Nelson, then living nearby in Burnham Thorpe and who had recently been appointed as Captain of a 64-gun third-rate, which was being fitted out at Chatham Dockyard.

Lacking in originality, but rich in brain-dead dialogue ; when Jami Gertz snarls, ' Get out, you creature of filth!

Lacking any advertising or promotion in the mainstream book industry, the novel has remained a top seller on Amazon. com since it came out in 1996.

Lacking guidance, industry picks its own areas.

Lacking, however, was any immediate indication that the Carías administration was destined to survive any longer than most of its predecessors.

Lacking coal reserves, hydroelectric power, large tracts of forest or commercially viable oil deposits, Jordan relies on natural gas for 10 % of its domestic energy needs.

Lacking the support of the formerly independent vassals and weakened by the increasing hostility of the Church, the monarchy lost its pre-eminence.

Lacking any great industrial, religious or strategic importance, Shiraz became an administrative centre, although its population has nevertheless grown considerably since the 1979 revolution.

Lacking evidence, the prosecution withdrew its charges.

Lacking its own post office, mail delivery is the responsibility of the nearby Galveston post office.

Lacking its own prestige model line in the early 1960s, Renault assembled CKD kits and marketed Rambler cars in France.

Lacking a common language and before the invention of the Universal translator, he used mathematics alone to communicate his ideas for a faster-than-light drive system and its prototype, the WD-1.

Lacking a syrinx — the vocal organ of birds — its only vocalizations are grunts or low hisses.

Lacking the " second resolution ", the U. S. announced its intention to attack Iraq regardless if Saddam Hussein did not abdicate.

Lacking any news channels, Hubbard instead used its in-house All News Channel, operated as a cooperative of Hubbard-owned stations.

Lacking the teeth necessary to slice its prey into manageable pieces, it flails its prey from side to side to tear and rip it into smaller pieces.

Lacking its natural frontier and having lost its costly system of border fortification, the new state was militarily indefensible.

Lacking ship-borne radar and neglectful in providing night-fighting training and equipment to its naval forces, the Regia Marina had fared badly during a night action with British forces off Cape Matapan in March 1941.

Lacking the computer resources of its larger competitors, Texas International was overtaken by American's introduction of AAdvantage in May, 1981.

Lacking a presence in Alberta, the company set its sights on Western International Communications, which owned three independent stations in that province that carried Global programming.

Lacking the lavish production values and visual spectacle of its Hollywood equivalents, Elstree Calling is now something of a curio item interesting chiefly for two reasons: Alfred Hitchcock ( then contracted to BIP ) was one of several directors employed on the production ; and the film is quite possibly the first ever to refer directly to television ( the linking narrative concerns a television broadcast of the revue, some six years before the BBC began regular television transmissions ).

" The Chicago Sun-Times wrote: " Lacking a smarter screenplay, it milks the genuine skills of its actors and director for more than it deserves, and then runs off the rails in an ending more laughable than scary.

Lacking tear ducts, it " cries " to remove its tears.

Lacking a unified strategy ( or army ) and fighting a defensive campaign, from April onwards the army lost cohesion and its special advantages.